Improvement in curtain-roller brackets



H. SEEHAUSEN.

CURTAIN-ROLLER BRACKET. No.176,202. Patented Apr'1118,18'76.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGEa HERMAN SEEHAUSEN, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD HIS RIGHT TO GEORGE R. G. JONES, OF lSAME PLACE.

y IMPROVEMENT IN CURTAIN-ROLLER BRACKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,202., dated April 18, 1876; application tiled October 21, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: t

Be it known that I, HERMAN SEEHAUSEN, of Memphis, county of Shelby, and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Curtain Fixtures, of which the following is a speeication The nature of my invention consists in the construct-ion' and arrangement of a curtainfixture for supporting the roller end of the curtain-roller, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing', which forms a part of this speeiiication, and in which- Iiigure l is a front view of a window-frame with curtain and xtures attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a side View ofthe same. Fig. 3 shows the improved curtain-fixture detached, two

views ot' the bracket G being shown, one of the attaching-flange, the other ot the projectin g support.

A represents a window-frame. B is the curtain, and O the roller, to which the curtain is attached. The roller O is at one end provided with the usual pivot a, and at the other end With the ordinary pulley b and pivot a. The pivot a is supported in the usual bracket E.

- The other pivot a has its bearing in a plate,

D, which is pivoted to a bracket, G, fastened to the windowf'rame.. This bracket is made with a longitudinal slot, so as to be adjusted out and in, as required, lto t the curtainroller. The plate D is acted upon by a'spring,

d, holding this end of the roller up. e is the ordinary curtain-cord, passing around the pulley b and around the knob H. This cord is always held sufficiently tightby means of the action of the spring d upon the pivoted plate D, which, as the cord stretches, raises the roller end or pulley end of the curtain-roller, thus compensating for any expansion of the curtain-cord.

If, by any means, the curtain-cord should come olil from the knob H, or become broken, the spring d raises the plate D until the pulley b is brought in contact with a projection, h, at the upper end of the bracket G, so that the curtain will not fall down.

The spring d may be inade of wire, in the form shown, or of any other suitable forni and material.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination ofthe bracket G, pivoted plate D, and the spring d with the curtain-roller, pulley with pivot, and curtain-cord, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The projection hon the bracket G, in combination with the rollerpulley b, pivoted plate D, and spring d, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I hereunto affix my signature this 16th day of October, 1875.

HERMAN SEEHAUSEN.

Witnesses:

B. B. DAVIDSON, J. W. SIMMONS. 

